Sunday 19 February 2012

Magical Beijing Tour of Pandas

A huge thank you to the Irish Institute for Chinese Studies and UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland to granted our school 10 tickets to see the fantastic Kung Fu Spectacular presented by the production team of Beijing Olympics 2008, organised by the Beijing tourism board. The fabulous show took place at the Convention Centre, Dublin on Thursday 16th February, 2012. A big thank you to a close friend who sourced out the tickets for myself and family too!

I have not seen something so fantastic that combined Chinese culture, Kung Fu fighting skills, wonderful music, colourful costumes and beauty of production all so well together.

The Magical Beijing Tour of Pandas featured two lovely pandas that learnt all kinds of Chinese Kung Fu skills such as Tai Chi, Chinese boxing, monkey boxing, drunken boxing, swords fighting, sticks fighting and many more. We also enjoyed the Peking opera, acrobatics, sleeves dance which was my daughter’s favourite part and the carnival at the end.

What an unforgettable night and best of luck with both Beijing and Dublin tourism development!

Wednesday 8 February 2012

New songs we learnt this week

For the class on Tuesday, we’ve got 泥娃娃 ní wá wá clay doll
泥娃娃
ní wá wá
泥娃娃
ní wá wa
一個泥娃娃
yí gè ní wá wa
也有那眉毛
yě yǒu nà méi máo
也有那眼睛
yě yǒu nà yǎn jīng
眼睛不會眨
yǎn jīng bú huì zhǎ
泥娃娃
ní wá wá
泥娃娃
ní wá wa
一個泥娃娃
yí gè ní wá wa
也有那鼻子
yě yǒu nà bí zi
也有那嘴巴
yě yǒu nà zuǐ bā
嘴巴不說話
zuǐ bā bù shuō huà
她是個
tā shì ge
假娃娃
jiǎ wá wa
不是個
bú shì ge
真娃娃
zhēn wá wa
她沒有
tā méi yǒu
親愛的爸爸
qīn ài de bà ba
也沒有媽媽
yě méi yǒu mā ma
泥娃娃
ní wá wá
泥娃娃
ní wá wa
一個泥娃娃
yí gè ní wá wa
我做她爸爸
wǒ zuò tā bà ba
我做她媽媽
wǒ zuò tā mā ma
永遠愛著
yǒng yuǎn ài zhe tā

For the class on Wed, we've got:

如果你很高興rú guǒ nǐ hěn gāo xìn
 (if you are happy & you know it)
如果你很高興
rú guǒ nǐ hěn gāo xìng
你就拍拍手
nǐ jiù pāi pāi shǒu
如果你很高興
rú guǒ nǐ hěn gāo xìng
你就拍拍手
nǐ jiù pāi pāi shǒu
我們一起唱歌
wǒ men yī qǐ chàng gē
我們一起跳舞
wǒ men yī qǐ tiào wǔ
圍著圓圈
wéi zhe yuán quān
我們一起拍拍手
wǒ men yī qǐ pāi pāi shǒu
如果你很高興
rú guǒ nǐ hěn gāo xìng
你就跺跺腳
nǐ jiù duò duò jiǎ
如果你很高興
rú guǒ nǐ hěn gāo xìng
你就跺跺腳
nǐ jiù duò duò jiǎ
我們一起唱歌
wǒ men yī qǐ chàng gē
我們一起跳舞
wǒ men yī qǐ tiào wǔ
圍著圓圈
wéi zhe yuán quān
我們一起跺跺腳
wǒ men yī qǐ duò duò jiǎ
如果你很高興
rú guǒ nǐ hěn gāo xìng
你就點點頭
nǐ jiù diǎn diǎn tóu
如果你很高興
rú guǒ nǐ hěn gāo xìng
你就點點頭
nǐ jiù diǎn diǎn tóu
我們一起唱歌
wǒ men yī qǐ chàng gē
我們一起跳舞
wǒ men yī qǐ tiào wǔ
圍著圓圈
wéi zhe yuán quān
我們一起點點頭
wǒ men yī qǐ diǎn diǎn tóu
如果你很高興
rú guǒ nǐ hěn gāo xìng
你就說萬歲
nǐ jiù shuō wàn suì
如果你很高興
rú guǒ nǐ hěn gāo xìng
你就說萬歲
nǐ jiù shuō wàn suì
我們一起唱歌
wǒ men yī qǐ chàng gē
我們一起跳舞
wǒ men yī qǐ tiào wǔ
圍著圓圈
wéi zhe yuán quān
我們一起說萬歲
wǒ men yī qǐ shuō wàn suì

元宵節快樂 yuán xiāo jié kuài lè Happy Lantern Festival! (Lunar calendar: Jan 15th)


I hope children enjoyed the story about Lantern Festival.

We didn't make the gluten rice balls this year as children did not like them last year but instead, we have make some lanterns from the beautiful red-envelops, red spring couplets and red papers.